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Title: The war and the Bagdad Railway; the story of Asia Minor and its relation to the present conflict
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Jastrow, Morris, 1861-1921
Subjects: Baghdad Railway Eastern question World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Philadelphia, London, J.B. Lippincott Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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f inscriptionsin the peculiar Hittite hieroglyphic characters,accompanying the sculptures, and the many in-scribed stones containing the explanation of thescenes or embodying votive dedications. By the sideof these inscribed lapidary monuments, excavationsat Boghaz-Keui conducted by the late Hugo Winck-ler in 1906-1907 have brought to light, to cap thesurprise of scholars, thousands of clay tablets, likethose found in Babylonian and Assyrian mounds,covered with cuneiform characters, but representingnot the Sumerian (non-Semitic) or Akkadian (Semi-tic) language of the Euphrates Valley, but Hittite—the same language as that of the hieroglyphic inscrip-tions, transliterated into cuneiform.* This proof ofthe adoption of the cuneiform script for writingHittite, because more convenient and simpler forcorrespondence and business documents—and that ^ A parallel would be to come across Egyptian inscriptionswritten not with any of the varieties of the Egyptian script,but with Greek letters.
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HITTITE ROCK SCULPTURE AT IVRIZ (C. 1000 B.C.)

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